Tom Homan says ICE agents will assist at crowded airport security points amid TSA staffing shortages

The White House border czar said agents will deploy to airports across the country Monday to assist TSA officers with security at airport entrances and exits where lines have been particularly long in recent weeks.

White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that ICE agents will deploy to airports across the country Monday to assist TSA officers with security at airport entrances and exits where lines have been particularly long in recent weeks.

Homan told CNN’s “State of the Union” he was currently working on a plan for the deployment with the leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration. He said he believed it would begin at large airports that have seen longest wait times and that agents would cover security points but wouldn’t provide help with baggage screenings.

“You know, certainly a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit. Make sure people don’t go through those exits, enter an airport through the exits and stuff like that, relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines,” Homan added.

His remarks come after President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would deploy ICE agents to airports as soon as Monday to help ease long lines.

“ICE will do the job far better than ever done before!” he wrote Saturday on Truth Social.